Code Parade (also on itch.io) is developing a "hyperbolic" 3D game engine (download) where a line is not necessarily the shortest path between two places. I was impressed by the… Read the rest of the article: Non-Euclidean game worlds

A string of articles posted at conservative media outlets were exposed last night as the work of an influence network of fake personas, reports Adam Rawnsley at The Daily Beast.… Read the rest of the article: Right-wing media ran dozens of "Middle East hot takes" by fake authors

A man at was filmed Monday yelling and threatening shoppers at a Costco in Fort Myers, Florida, reportedly after an elderly woman asked him why he wasn't wearing a mask.… Read the rest of the article: Screaming man threatens shoppers at Florida Costco

Kanye West announced this weekend that he's running for president, winning the immediate endorsement of billionaire socialite Elon Musk. It turns out, however, that West has filed none of the… Read the rest of the article: Kanye not actually running for president yet

I'm looking forward to playing Hideous Abomination [Kickstarter], because it combines two of my favorite things: games where you build something piece by piece out of cards or tiles, and… Read the rest of the article: Hideous Abomination, a tile-laying game where you never create the same monstrosity twice

Oregon State Police said Monday that an officer who flashed the "OK" hand symbol at a far-right protestor did nothing wrong. The cop was filmed making the gesture as he… Read the rest of the article: Oregon cop "cleared" after flashing white power sign at right-wing demonstrators

Today's serving of the Streisand Effect comes courtesy of American Girl, which hopes that no-one will see Adam the Creator's "Karen" parody of its dolls.

Samara Ginsberg performs Sylvester Levay's Airwolf theme tune — originally intended for orchestral presentation but now a synth classic — on eight cellos. Stringfellow would be so proud! Bonus: Ginsberg's… Read the rest of the article: Airwolf theme performed on eight cellos (with bonus Thundercats)

Italian composer Ennio Morricone is dead at 91. Morricone acquired fame scoring Westerns but transcended genre to become one of the world's masters of the form. "His music was always… Read the rest of the article: Ennio Morricone, 1928-2020

screenshot.rocks fits any image you upload into a web browser-style frame and gives you a new image of the composite. It's perfect for turning photoshopped web design ideas into mockups… Read the rest of the article: How to make simple browser window mockups

In a video posted to Tiktok, a shopper asserts her constitutional right not to wear a mask in Costco, then her constitutional right to plant her rear on the floor.… Read the rest of the article: Unmasked shopper asserts constitutional right to sit on the floor in Costco

Most of you being American, I hope you celebrate July 4 with all the radical joy you can muster.

Photographer Drew Gardner created a photo series depicting descendants of historical figures, each posed as their ancestors. Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Napoleon Bonaparte, Charles Dickens… It's surprising how uncanny the resemblances… Read the rest of the article: Thomas Jefferson portrait recreated with distant descendant

British historian David Starkey was fired today from one appointment and resigned from several others after remarking that the existence of "so many damn Blacks" showed that slavery was not… Read the rest of the article: Racist professor fired

Joshua Taylor and Brandon Dingman, two officers with Wilson Police Department in Oklahoma, were charged with second-degree murder after killing a man they tased 50 times. The New York Times… Read the rest of the article: Cops charged with murder after tasing man 50 times

I was thinking of picking up an old Hilux but one of these will do. Calum G: "Russia's Colossal Antarctic Cruisers which have been continuously operating in some of the… Read the rest of the article: Short documentary about Kharkovchanka, huge Antarctic off-road vehicles made by the Soviets

Sealand is an unrecognized micronation off the coast of England, established in the 1960s and issuer of stamps, passports and occasional offshore business shenanigans ("BECOME A LORD"). But Sealand is… Read the rest of the article: Sealand's caretakers

This happened today in Auburn Hills,MI Another Karen .. pic.twitter.com/lWksZwXITD — 🦋Makay (@makaysmith10) July 2, 2020 A woman was arrested yesterday after pulling a gun on another woman and her… Read the rest of the article: Woman points gun at mother and daughter in Chipotle car lot, charged with assault

Ghislaine Maxwell, the British heiress and longtime confidant of billionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, is in FBI custody. She was arrested in New Hampshire, reports NBC News, and charged with… Read the rest of the article: Epstein confidante Ghislaine Maxwell arrested by FBI

America First was a protectionist movement in the early 20th century whose name ultimately became the slogan of those opposed to fighting the Nazis. Revived by the Trump campaign in… Read the rest of the article: Trump "America First" Eagle design looks like the Nazi parteiadler emblem